As a part of ongoing survey and documentation efforts for the 2009–2010 update to the county’s Historic
Sites and Districts Plan, in 2007 the Prince George’s County Planning Department, M-NCPPC retained
The Ottery Group of Olney, Maryland, to produce Maryland Inventory of Historic Property (MIHP)
forms for 70 historic properties (many of which had been included in the 1996 survey) and 3 historic
communities. As part of that project, the consultant team was asked to conduct oral histories with ten
individuals whose heritage is directly linked to the properties being documented. The interviews were
conducted by Charlotte King, research assistant to Dr. Paul Shackel, Professor of Anthropology at the
University of Maryland. The following are transcriptions of the ten oral interviews conducted in 2008.
The purpose of the interviews was to help develop the historic context statements for the MIHP forms
being produced for the ten properties.
